Richard the Great
Banned
What if somebody,let's say the Chinese in let's say,around 908 would invent a powder that can be ignited and exploded? Let's call it gunpowder.How would our world would be changed by then? Surely such an invention before the discovery of nitroglicerin should be in the ASB section but how would such an invention affect the Medieval and early modern war? I imagine China would be more sucessful against both the Arab and the Mongols and maybe the Fifty years war between France and England would have been shorter with this substance instead of swords and arrows and the colonisation of the old world would have gone differently.